Kommunikation ebenso wie der elektronischen Datenaufbereitung bis hin zu den gesellschaftlichen Möglichkeiten und Auswirkungen der …

Mass media can play a key role in enabling citizens to monitor the actions of incumbents and to use this information in … ofthe approach taken here is to focus on incentives the media have to produceand disseminate information.[...] …

We examine whether the desire for more information is people's dominant motive for reading economic and political news … experimentally vary people's beliefs about the informativeness of news. Inconsistent with the desire for more information being the … information reduce their demand for news from this newspaper. Furthermore, treated respondents who think that a news outlet is …

common Downsian reasoning, rational voters should not be willing to pay for information out of purely instrumental motives … apply when a group of voters shares a common goal such as accountability and information is delivered via mass media. In … instrumental information in these scenarios. Our model thus reconciles the rational voter approach with the common perception of …

The internet has transformed the way in which voters access and receive political information, such that it has … circumvented the filtering of information previously undertaken by editorial offices. Consequently, consumers have had to learn how … to filter relevant information themselves. The introduction phase of the internet coincided with a decreasing voter …

The media report news that in turn influences behaviors. This news is drawn from a set of available information. In … this paper, we study how the set of information is "exante" affected by anticipated media coverages. First, we take an … coverage shocks significantly impact the production of information. More precisely, stories that are substitute to sport news …

simple model of information and collective action, we cover a range of different outcomes related to social capital, from … technologies hinges on their content ("information" vs "entertainment"), their effectiveness in fostering coordination, and the …